Automatic headphone equalization

Conversations, my federated instant messaging client for Android, started out as many traditional open-source projects do: as an attempt to scratch my own itch. Development started in January 2014 in my student dormitory, and within weeks I started dogfooding and using the client as the primary means of communicating with my friends. However, when it came to releasing the app to the public on March 24, 2014—exactly twelve and a half years ago today—it was immediately clear to me that I would at least try to turn my open-source project into a business. While I didn’t invent the business model of making the source code publicly available but charging for the convenience of a compiled binary, it was certainly unusual in 2014.

This was unavoidable, given my post from the other day about how to make traceroute display (almost) arbitrary strings.

Traceroute is fun tool to investigate how packets travel through the internet. Due to how it's made, we can make traceroute tools show (almost) arbitrary poems. This blog post gives you an idea how.

In keystone/common/rbac_enforcer/enforcer.py at line 478-479, the enforce_call method unconditionally merges the raw JSON request body into the policy enforcement dictionary after trusted target data has been set from the database: json_input = flask.request.get_json(force=True, silent=True) or {} policy_dict.update(json_input.copy()) The get_json call uses force=True, which means JSON parsing happens regardless of the Content-Type header or HTTP method (including GET, HEAD, DELETE). The ...